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Mentors

Spring 2010 San Diego / Orange County

The Founder Institute carefully recruits approximately 25 Mentors per Semester, who are normally the CEO or founder of a successful startup. The Mentors are selected based on their ability to convey lessons learned on a topic in the curriculum and help participating Founders by sharing their relevant experiences. Mentors are accessible to Founders in the program during the sessions and through email. The shared equity upside of each Semester encourages supportive and collaborative relationships with the Mentors.

The Institute recruits some of the Mentors after a Semester has launched to match the needs of Founders with the skills of Mentors.

Adeo Ressi

CEO, TheFunded.com  

Description:
Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eight start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating.

Alex Bard

Founder & CEO,  

Description:
Alex Bard is the Founder and CEO of Assistly, a new stealth software company focused on customer interaction and customer relationship management (CIM & CRM). Formerly, Alex was the VP of Product at AOL, and the President & CEO at goowy media, a flash widget company that was purchased by AOL in 2008. Alex was also part of the founding team of two other Internet communication companies, including eAssist Global Solutions and eShare Technologies. Alex holds a BA in Finance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Anton Monk

Co-Founder/ VP of Technology , Entropic Communications  

Description:
Dr. Anton Monk is the Co-Founder/ VP of Technology at Entropic Communications (Nasdaq: ENTR), a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets system solutions to enable connected home entertainment. Prior to Entropic, he led physical layer system design for several Conexant product lines, led physical layer system engineering and IC verification developments in cable, satellite, and fixed wireless ICs at ComStream Corporation, and performed communication system research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Anton holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Bob Rosin

CEO,  

Description:
Bob has built two companies from scratch and raised over $117M in venture capital from Sequoia, Atlas, Azure, Paladin, AsiaTech, Motorola, Wasserstein, Marc Andreessen, Nicholas Negroponte, Ron Conway, and other investors. Bob was previously SVP Sales and Marketing, OQO, developer of the first pocketable PC, and brought the company from zero to over $25M in annual revenue. Previously, Bob was Founder and President of Bang Networks, a pioneer in realtime messaging on the public Internet. Previously, Bob worked at Sony Corp. in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, where he incubated Navio (now Liberate Technologies) and led Sony's involvement with WebTV Networks, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft). Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he won the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship, and received his BA from Cornell University Magna Cum Laude with three majors. Bob received Red Herring Top 100 for two companies, is first author on 9 granted US patents, has a Black Belt in Aikido, is fluent in Japanese, and is an avid underwater photographer.

Chester Ng

Co-Founder, Chief Business Officer,  

Description:
Chester Ng is a Co-Founder of OpenCandy, the distribution and monetization platform exclusively for consumer software providers. As the Chief Business Officer, Chester runs the business development and sales team focused on partnerships that increase distribution or revenues for software creators. Prior to OpenCandy, Chester spent 7 years at DivX, most recently as Director of Business Development, responsible for building new business lines like software licensing/ distribution and online advertising, as well as expanding DivX into new markets like social media and internationally. Chester graduated from University of California, San Diego with a BS, in Management Science.

Chris Capdevila

Founder & Former CEO, LogicalApps  

Description:
Chris Capdevila is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and active board member in several Southern California based software start-ups. Chris was the Founder and CEO of LogicalApps, which he led from inception to become the leading provider of automated business controls monitoring and enforcement solutions. He grew the company to over $25M in revenues and in November 2007 sold the company to Oracle Corporation. Prior to founding LogicalApps, Chris was a senior manager with Price Waterhouse for over 7 years and provided strategic consulting services to several Fortune 500 companies. Chris graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Economics and was named Software Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 by the The Southern California Software Council.

Ian Lerner

CEO & Co-Founder, X-Digital Systems  

Description:
Prior to co-founding Xdigital, Mr. Lerner served as Executive Vice President of StarGuide Digital Networks, where he was a co-founder. At StarGuide, Mr. Lerner led business development efforts which resulted in opening the Japanese Cable broadcast market for StarGuide. Over 1 million subscribers in Japan use the technology developed. Mr. Lerner was also heavily involved in securing business with the major networks of the US radio industry. Mr. Lerner is a registered co-inventor of over 10 U.S. Patents and 5 international Patents.Mr. Lerner holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Middle East Politics from UCSD.

Jason Nazar

CEO,  

Description:
Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Before starting Docstoc, he was a partner in a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles where he worked with dozens of startups. He holds have a BA from UCSB and his JD/MBA from Pepperdine University, where he was the Student Body President of both Universities.

Jon Carder

Founder & CEO, MojoPages.com  

Description:
Jon Carder is a serial entrepreneur, currently the Founder and CEO of MojoPages.com, an online Local Search company dedicated to helping consumers find the best local businesses. MojoPages recently raised $5M from Austin Ventures in July 2009. Prior to MojoPages, Jon was the Founder and CEO of Client Shop, which helped over 1M consumers find the lowest rates on their home loans. ClientShop was San Diego's fastest growing company in 2005 and was sold shortly thereafter to Internet Brands(NASDAQ: INET). In 2001 Jon founded eHeaven.com, an online superstore while attending Point Loma Nazarene University.

Jordan Greenhall

Co-Founder & Former CEO,  

Description:
Jordan Greenhall is co-founder (former CEO, and chairman of the Board) of DivX Inc., the San Diego company behind the digital data compression application DivX that enabled reasonable quality video transmission over the Internet. Additionally, Mr. Greenhall has significant, senior, practical experience with developing and implementing Internet business models. He has served as a Strategic Consultant with INTERVU, a premiere streaming media services provider; and Vice President at MP3.com, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the company's business and content development model for its music website. Mr. Greenhall graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1997, and summa cum laude from Texas A&M with a BA in 1994

Mike Alfred

Co-Founder and CEO, BrightScope  

Description:
Mike is Co-Founder and CEO of BrightScop. BrightScope is an independent provider of 401k ratings and financial intelligence to plan sponsors, advisors, and participants in all 50 states. Their mission is to increase the retirement security of America's workforce by bringing transparency and efficiency to the 401k plan market. Previously, Mike was the Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Alfred Capital Management LLC, an independent registered investment firm located in La Jolla. Mike received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University.

Peter Shaw

Managing Director ,  

Description:
Peter Shaw, the managing director of Procopio Business Advisors (PBA), has extensive worldwide experience in technology-based companies as a CEO/President, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and board director. He has founded or co-founded five companies that led to successful acquisitions. He has served on the boards of more than 15 companies, both public and private, representing investors, assisting the CEO, or as an outside director. His experience includes working with companies that specialize in enterprise hardware, software, the Internet and Software as a Service.

Philip Kaplan

Co-founder, Blippy  

Description:
Philip Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Blippy. Formerly he was founder and CEO of AdBrite, and creator of F-edcompany.com. Philip is the best-selling author of F’d Companies (Simon & Schuster). Blippy is backed by Charles River Ventures and Sequoia Capital. AdBrite is backed by Sequoia Capital and is the largest privately-held ad network.

Ryan Alfred

Co-Founder & President, BrightScope  

Description:
Co-Founder, President, and Head of Product Development at BrightScope, an independent quantitative 401k ratings firm. He has become the BrightScope resident 401k expert having spent years pouring over and analyzing 401k filings and industry data. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and Chief Compliance Officer of Alfred Capital Management LLC, an independent registered investment firm located in La Jolla, CA. Ryan received his bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Steve Iverson

Founder & CEO, Diomede Storage  

Description:
Steve Iverson has founded 3 companies: 1 moderate success, 1 spectacular failure, and 1 still growing [great]. Currently, Steve is the Founder & CEO of Diomede Storage, a green, energy-efficient cloud storage service for backup and archival data. Steve has also garnered several professional awards: he won the 2005 San Diego Venture Group Pitchfest, he was a 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, and was awarded the San Diego Metropolitan Magazine “40 under 40” distinction. Steve graduated from Pomona College with a BA in Computer Science.

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